Could ‘multi-mediation’ offer a response to conflict fragmentation? Perspectives of women mediators

Session Description: Women mediators have long operated at and across multiple levels and spaces. This MEFA and Conciliation Resources hosted session will explore their understanding of ‘multimediation’ in theory and practice, and how policy and practice in peace mediation needs to adapt.

Moderator: Olivia Caeymaex, Director of Conciliation Resources EU

Panellists:

• Joëlle Coureau, Head of unit Rights, State Reform and Fragility, the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs

• Kristian Herbolzheimer, Director of the International Catalan Institute for Peace

• Marguerite Yoli-bi Koné, President of the Board of WANEP in Cote d’Ivoire, Vice-President of the peace and security of women in the ECOWAS region, member of FemWISE. (possibly intervention online)

• Marie-Joëlle Zahar, Senior Mediation Adviser, United Nations Standby Team on Mediation and professor of political science at the University of Montreal. 

• Achta Djibrine Sy, President of the Coalition of Chadian women mediators for sustainable peace. Vice-president of CONAMM (National Coalition Nationale des Autorités Morales pour la Médiation)